Question 1

In his inaugural speech, Lincoln:

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said the Union is eternal.

Question 2

The Confederates were inspired to bombard Fort Sumter as a result of:

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Lincolns decision to resupply it.

Question 3

All of the following were slave states that remained in the Union EXCEPT:

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Tennessee.

Question 4

Robert E.Lee joined the Confederates because he:

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was loyal to Virginia.

Question 5

When the war started, the South:

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had the advantage of fighting a defensive war.

Question 6

At the beginning of the Civil 
war, the North:

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had an edge of about four to one in potential manpower.

Question 7

After the fall of Fort Sumter partisans on both sides hoped the war:

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might end with one sudden bold strok, the capture of Washington or the fall of Richmond.

Question 8

The first real battle of the War:

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was fought near Washington D.C..

Question 9

At the First Battle of Bull Run:

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Thomas Jackson earned his nickname.

Question 10

The Anaconda strategy:

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included among other things a blockade of the southern coast.

Question 11

The fight between the Monitor and the Virginia was the first between:

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Ironclads.

Question 12

Civil War soldiers:

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were sometimes drafted.

Question 13

Anti-draft rioters in New York City especially targeted (BLANK)  foe their vilence:

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African Americans.

Question 14

A legal option for draftees on either side who chose not to serve was to:

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hire a substitute.

Question 15

The Trent episode of late 1861:

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greatly angered the British.

Question 16

Most of the Confederacys diplomatic efforts were aimed at:

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Britian.

Question 17

Fighting along the Kansas-Missouri border:

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featured brutal guerilla warfare.

Question 18

Fort Donelson:

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fell to Ulysses S. Grant in 1862.

Question 19

McClellans peninsular campaign was intended to:

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capture Richmond.

Question 20

All of the following are true about the battle of Antietam EXCEPT:

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McClellans vigorously pursued the retreating Lee.

Question 21

At Fredericksburg:

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Confederates used a great defensive position.

Question 22

Which of the following statements best describes the Civil War at the end of 1862?

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The war in the east was a virtual deadlock.

Question 23

Lincoln initially rejected a policy of emancipation:

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to keep the border states in the Union.

Question 24

The Emancipation Proclomation:

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was justified as a mmillitary necessity.

Question 25

The 54th Massachusetts Regiment was:

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proof of how well black troops could fight.

Question 26

Slavery was ultimately eradicated by:

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the Thirteenth Amendment.

Question 27

By the end of the war, the number of blacks serving the Union:

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was about 10 % of the Union armys total manpower.

Question 28

The greatest number of women who served in the war did so as:

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Nurses.

Question 29

The greenbacks issued by the U.S. Treasury:

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depended on public faith in the government.

Question 30

The Battle of Gettysburg occured in:

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Pennsylvania.

Question 31

To deal with disloyalty, Lincoln sometimes:

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suspended habeas corpus.

Question 32

All of the following battles resulted in Confederate victories EXCEPT:

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Vicksburg.

Question 33

Lincolns major opponent in the 1864 election was:

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George McClellan.

Question 34

All of the following are true of religion during the war EXCEPT:

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Linclon claimed to be certain of Gods purpose.

Question 35

Congress did all the following during the war EXCEPT:

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ban foreign immigration.

Question 36

Jefferson Davis's most vocal political opponents were:

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defenders of states rights.

Question 37

By late in the war, food in the Confederacy:

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was outrageously expensive.

Question 38

At the Battle of Chancellorsville:

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the Confederates lost Stonewall Jackson.

Question 39

on the third day at Gettysbur, General Pickett:

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was repulsed with terrible losses.

Question 40

In addition to the huge number of soldier deaths in the war, an equally huge number of (BLANK)  also died:

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animals.

Question 41

As UNion commander, Grant was best characterized by his:

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plan to relentlessly attack.

Question 42

At Petersburg:

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Grant put the Confederates under siege.

Question 43

Hood's attack at Franklin:

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led to his army's slaughter.

Question 44

More than any other general William T. Sherman recognized:

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the connection between the Souths economy, its moral, and its ability to wage war.

Question 45

Sherman's army in its march to the sea:

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sought to break the enemy's moral.

Question 46

Lincolns second inaugural address:

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was a plea for reconciliation.

Question 47

At Appomattox Court House:

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most Confederates resistance ended.

Question 48

The death toll in the Civil War was roughly:

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630,000.

Question 49

Which of the following is NOT true of the Civil War:

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Most of the deaths occured in battle.

Question 50

In the North, the Civil War especially elevated the power of:

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business leaders.

Question 51

During the Civil War, Congress passed:

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the Homestead Act of 1862, which gave 160 acres to settlers who lived on the land for five years.

Question 52

The South's greatest monetary loss stemmed from:

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loss of its slaves.

Question 53

After the war, rumors swept the South that ex-slaves would recieve:

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forty accres and a mule.

Question 54

Among its many tasks the Freedmen's Bureau in the South:

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set up schools.

Question 55

At the end of the Civil War the newly freed slaves were given:

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medical and leagal assistance from the Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.

Question 56

Under Lincolns plan for Reconstruction:

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10 percent of the 1860 voters had to take an oath of allegiance to the Union.

Question 57

The Radical Republicans supported all of the following EXCEPT:

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Lincoln's 10 percent plan.

Question 58

Lincoln's assassin John Wilkes Booth:

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was a pro-cofederate actor.

Question 59

The statess that had seceded were simply "out of their practical relation with the Unon" and the nation's goal following the war was to return them to "their proper practical relation." This statement is made by:

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Abraham Lincoln.

Question 60

Linoln's succesor , Andrew Johnson:

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was a pro-Union southerner.

Question 61

Andrew Johnson got off to a bad start as vice president when he:

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appeared to be drunk at Lincoln's inauguration.

Question 62

Johnson's Reconstruction plan:

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would fairly quickly restore the Union.

Question 63

When discussing what to do with the former Confederate States, President Johnson:

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perferred the term Restoration rather than reconstruction.

Question 64

Andrew Johnson:

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favored the interest of small farmers over those of large planters.

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